Five of Wands
Five of Wands — the suit of fire, of will and enterprise.
A posse of youths, who are brandishing staves, as if in sport or strife. It is mimic warfare, and hereto correspond the
Divinatory meaning
Imitation, as, for example, sham fight, but also the strenuous competition and struggle of the search after riches and fortune. In this sense it connects with the battle of life. Hence some attributions say that it is a card of gold, gain, opulence.
Reversed
Litigation, disputes, trickery, contradiction. [Illustration]
From The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, A. E. Waite, page 51 of the library’s copy. The words are Waite’s.
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